11 Swedish municipalities have been granted a total of 10 641 000 SEK to conduct their municipal partnerships focusing on one or more of ICLD’s four core areas – equality, participation, transparency, and accountability. Swedish municipalities together with an international partner can apply for funds to a municipal partnership twice a year. Municipal partnerships increase…
Ten international Master’s students studying at Swedish universities were recently awarded ICLD fieldwork grants. The 20,000 SEK grant enables students to conduct a field study in a low- and middle income country for their thesis. The students will conduct their field studies during spring semester 2020. On December 9-10, the students participated in an introductory…
“A large share of the population is comprised by youth and they are also the ones that will create and carry our future society” These words are Karin Perérs’s, project coordinator for the partnership between Falun in Sweden and Tsumeb Municipality in Namibia. The partnership started ten years ago and has since its inception yielded…
ICLD is making a call for three national mentors in Cambodia, Indonesia and Vietnam to the International Training Programme “Inclusive Urban Development through SymbioCity” Deadline for the applications: December 31st, 2019 The main responsibility of the Mentor is to support the six participants in its country, from two different municipalities, with their change projects and…
The objective of municipal partnerships is to strengthen local democracy by improving citizen’s access and by expanding opportunities for people to take part in local political processes. Local democracy is in itself a process, where time and devotion pays off. While some may dismiss “with age comes wisdom” as merely a cliché, certain aspects of…
This year in June, the Local Democracy Academy hosted scholars from around the world to share ideas, network, and present their research on ‘Global challenges and Local governments: Towards Transformative Policy and Practice’, in Umeå, Sweden. This conference highlighted the increasing role cities and local government have in addressing a host of issues from immigration…
Since 2014, ICLD has run the advanced international training programme “Capacitating local leaders in Zimbabwe”.
Are you a local government official? Do you want to develop gender equality in your municipality and contribute to gender-equal lives for all citizens? This 18 months International Training Programme offers a training in how to gender mainstream local democracy. You will have the opportunity to work on a change process from your own local…
The focus of the training is on exploring ways of making governance in the municipality equitable and inclusive. The participants will work on a change project and implement a strategy to make the municipality equitable, participatory, transparent and accountable. By strengthening the capacity of selected teams and by strengthening the networks available to them, the…
The main objective of the programme is strengthened capacity of local governments to plan, develop and manage urban areas sustainably and inclusively by using the SymbioCity approach. The programme seeks to enhance the capacity of individuals as well as organizations. It aims to provide inspiration, approaches and tools which are effective and useful in the…
